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US oil prices rose above $70 a barrel, on Monday, for the first time since November 2014 and Brent crude climbed to fresh highs, buoyed as a deepening economic crisis in Venezuela threatened the country’s already tumbling oil supply.

Brent crude oil futures were at $75.59 per barrel at 0546 GMT, up 72 cents, or 1 percent, from their last close after climbing to $75.89 a barrel earlier in the session, their highest since November 2014.

US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 62 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $70.34 per barrel, up 66 cents from their last settlement. Monday was the first time since November 2014 that WTI rose above $70 per barrel.

The concerns about Venezuela added to worries over a looming decision on whether the United States will walk away from a deal with Iran and instead re-imposes sanctions on Tehran, are keeping international oil markets on edge.

Meanwhile, China’s Shanghai crude oil futures, launched in March, broke their dollar-converted record high of $71.32 per barrel by rising as far as $72.54 on Monday.

Analysts warned that the deepening economic crisis in major oil exporter Venezuela threatened to further crimp its production and exports.

Shannon Rivkin, investment director of Australia’s Rivkin Securities, said that oil prices had been driven up due to “growing concerns over the economic collapse of Venezuela and its oil industry, plus possible new sanctions against Iran from the Trump administration”.

US oil firm ConocoPhillips has moved to take key Caribbean assets of Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA to enforce a $2 billion arbitration award, actions that could further impair PDVSA’s declining oil production and exports.

Venezuela’s oil output has halved since the early 2000s to just 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd), as the South American country has failed to invest enough to maintain its petroleum industry.

Beyond Venezuela’s woes, Greg McKenna, chief market strategist at futures brokerage AxiTrader, said “the big story this week is going to be about oil and the Iran Nuclear deal”. Most market participants expect Trump to withdraw from the pact, he said.

Iran re-emerged as a major oil exporter in 2016 after international sanctions against it were lifted in return for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program.

Expressing doubts over Iran’s sincerity, Trump has threatened to walk away from the 2015 agreement by not extending sanctions waivers when they expire on May 12, which would likely result in a reduction of Iran’s oil exports.

Looming over markets, however, is surging US output, which has soared by more than a quarter in the last two years, to 10.62 million bpd.

US energy companies added nine oil rigs looking for new production in the week to May 4, bringing the total count to 834, the highest level since March 2015, energy services firm Baker Hughes said last Friday.

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